Happy New Year! As many of my long term readers know, I don’t send out a January letter as I am busy putting together our annual Gold Report which will come to you at the end of the month and hopefully give you some vision as to what we see

Tis the season to be jolly and giving. Every year at this time people rush around like wild herds of buffalo storming store after store looking for the best deal for their “gifts.” Sometimes to the point that people literally get trampled when the doors open on Black Friday (it

“Pasteur’s theory of germs is a ridiculous fiction. How do you think that these germs in the air can be numerous enough to develop into all those organic infusions?” – Professor Pierre Pocket 1872 Walt Disney was fired as a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination.” Thomas Edison was fired

In an attempt to be efficient, I am going to give you a sneak peek at an article I just wrote for a commercial real estate trade paper on the state of the San Diego Retail Market. The lights may have gone out in San Diego on September 8th but

It may seem hard to believe but the kids are going back to school and football is in the air. Also, as hard as it is to believe amid S&P downgrades, Wall Street turmoil and financial troubles in Europe, the US economy is heading in the right direction, albeit slowly.

Scientists are now learning that life is wiped out on earth about every 20 million years. Great…we will finally get the deficit paid off and we’ll all be wiped out! I heard one of the proposed budget cuts was for our representative to now play miniature golf! Speaking of golf

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” -Dale Carnegie Happy 4th of July! We are so fortunate to live in a country that allows us to be free to pursue

What a crazy month. I just told someone that I am really busy not making money right now. The economy that we’re experiencing right now is definitely testing people. Unless you lived during the Great Depression, you’ve most likely never experienced an economy like this one. So the question becomes,

Well as you are reading this I will be (or will have just finished) dragging my weary body across the finish line after a 26.2 mile run along the coast highway in the Big Sur International Marathon. Having run a marathon before I can tell you I am going to

Well as March Madness (basketball) winds to a close we now come face to face with the realities of April and tax time, balanced budgets, employment, and recovery. If you think you are better than our politicians and are confident about cutting costs and or raising taxes, I think you